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''[[The Fountain]]'' is a 2006 [[Speculative Fiction]] film written and directed by [[Darren Aronofsky]] and starring [[Hugh Jackman]] and [[Rachel Weisz]].
The movie follows Hugh Jackman as the protagonist in three different settings. In [[The Present Day]] Tommy Creo is an oncologist searching for a cure for his wife's brain cancer, and is [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|obsessive in his pursuit]] to the point of leaving his wife to deal with her illness on her own most of the time. He stumbles [[Fountain of Youth|across an extract]] from a South American tree that has promising results. Meanwhile, his wife comes to terms with her fate and is trying to finish a book which also happens to be about the second storyline.
In the second storyline, Tomás is a Spanish soldier during the Age of Exploration trying to defend his queen, Isabel, (again played by Weisz) from
In the third storyline, Tom, "the Astronaut," is a [[Hermit Guru|bald, monk-like man]] in a space bubble containing land and a tree. He is sustaining himself off of an extract of the tree but at the same time is rationing it to avoid having the tree die. It seems he believes the tree holds some connection to his wife, who visits him in visions. We learn eventually that he is headed towards a star that his wife told him about in the present day timeline. He tattoos an elaborate pattern up his arm to mark the [[Time Abyss|passage of time]], like tree rings.
In each of the three storylines, he is dedicated to his mission to the neglect of all other things. The relationships between the three storylines are up for debate as there seem to be [[Recursive Reality|indirect interactions]] between the three versions of Jackman's character that suggest that they might be the same person or that one or two of the characters [[Fiction Identity Postulate|might be imaginary to the third]].
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* [[Transfictionality]]: One possible interpretation of the plot.
* [[Unfinished Business]]: One possible interpretation of the plot is that future!Tom {{spoiler|is in Purgatory or a [[Dying Dream]]}}, where he must reconcile himself before moving on.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original film project starring [[Brad Pitt]], as storyboarded in [[The Book of the Film|the graphic novel]], was significantly different and more of a straight big budget sci-fi
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Tommy does and finds a way to do just that, but eventually accepts that all things must die.
* [[World Tree]]: centerpiece of the film.
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